Lot #652: ROY LICHTENSTEIN - Tintin Reading II - Color offset lithograph

   

Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997).
Title: "Tintin Reading II".
Medium: Color offset lithograph.
Date: Composed 1995.
Dimensions: Overall size: 39 3/8 x 27 5/8 in. (1000 x 702 mm). Image size: 28 3/4 x 23 3/8 in. (730 x 594 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $1,600
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $2,500/3,000
Lot Note(s): Signed lower right. Edition size unspecified, presumed small. Smooth white wove paper. Full margins. Fine impression. Overall condition very good; a few handling dimples in the lower margin, well away from image. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Corlett III.16 for the 1993 issue; Doering/Von der Osten 65 for this, the 1995 issue. Provenance: Estate of a private collector, Venice, California.
Comment(s): This is a very large as well as very scarce print. We could locate only two sales at auction in the past 25 years; both were signed impressions. Sale for $8,702 (€5,520) on 03/15/2008 at Venator & Hanstein, Germany; sale for $4,671 (€3,510) at Ketterer Kunst, Hamburg, 03/18/2005. Published by Plaizier and printed by Carto in Brussels, the home of Tintin and his creator Herge. Image copyright © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. [26572-6-1600-NA]